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Kentucky's Democratic governor was re-elected Tuesday, and voters picked a new governor in Mississippi — decisions that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression. In Ohio, voters restored the bargaining rights of public employees, and in Mississippi they considered whether life should be defined as beginning at conception. Supporters of the Mississippi measure hope to use it to mount a l...
Kentucky and Mississippi refused to turn their governors' offices over to different parties Tuesday, despite the nation's economic woes, and Ohio restored full bargaining rights to tens of thousands of public employees in a major victory for organized labor. Also in Mississippi, voters rejected an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at conception — a measure that supporters had hoped to use to mount a legal attack on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion. A...
